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PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN-100774867256
ISBN-139780774867252
eBay Product ID (ePID)19057252184
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameLiberal-Labour Lady : the Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
SubjectWomen in Politics, World / Canadian, Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
TypeTextbook
AuthorVeronica Strong-Boag
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAs an acclaimed scholarly chronicler of Canadian, especially British Columbian, herstory, Veronica Strong-Boag is determined that Mary Ellen Spear Smith will not slip from recorded memory.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal971.1/03092
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Worker, Settler, Liberal, Feminist 1 Setting the Stage in British Mining Villages, to 1892 2 Replenishing the Empire, 1892-1900 3 From Nanaimo to Ottawa and Back Again, 1900-11 4 Boom, Bust, War, and Death, 1912-17 5 Independent Liberal Lady? 1917-20 6 From Hope to Disillusion, 1920-28 7 On the Margins, 1928-33 Conclusion: British Columbia's Famous Pioneer Politician: Making History Notes; Index
SynopsisThis authoritative biography of Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933) - British Columbia's first female MLA, the British Empire's first female cabinet minister, and a BC suffragist - recovers from obscurity an audacious but imperfect champion in the struggle for greater democracy in early twentieth-century Canada., A biography of Mary Ellen Spear Smith , the British Empire's first female cabinet member. Mary Ellen Spear Smith (1863-1933), the first female cabinet minister in the British Empire, left a significant and complex legacy. A miner's daughter, Smith pioneered the women's suffrage movement in Canada and campaigned on behalf of a nascent labor movement in parliament, even as she embraced the white supremacy and bourgeois ideals of the Empire. Through the story of this intrepid politician, A Liberal-Labour Lady captures the uneven struggle for justice in turn-of-the-century Canada., A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia's first female MLA and the British Empire's first female cabinet minister to history. An imperial settler, liberal-labour activist, and mainstream suffragist, Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933) demanded a fair deal for "deserving" British women and men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in England in 1863, the daughter and wife of miners, she emigrated to Nanaimo, BC, in 1892. As she became a well-known suffragist and her husband Ralph won provincial and federal elections, the power couple strove to shift Liberal parties leftward to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism's privileging of white women. Ralph's 1917 death launched Mary Ellen as a candidate in a tumultuous 1918 Vancouver by-election. In the BC legislature until 1928, Smith campaigned for better wages, pensions, and greater justice, even as she endorsed anti-Asian, settler, and pro-eugenic policies. Simultaneously intrepid and flawed, Mary Ellen Smith is revealed to be a key figure in early Canada's compromised struggle for greater justice.
LC Classification NumberF1033
